Topic: Nintendo Plans Major Retail Store in NYC

[nickmitch]

Expanding in to New Orleans wouldn't be a bad idea. Large population, plenty of rain to grow plants, Mardi Gras (tommorow!) and Jazz Fest tourism can attract more people there, Huri. . .I mean candy canes, and perhaps a chance of me getting a job there.

[Gamefreak]

Man we don't get anything down here in Georgia. At least a few times in the past E3 was in Atlanta, which takes me like 20 minutes to drive to, but it doesn't look like it will ever come back

[MysticGohan24]

Bah, Forget Georgia. We get nothing in Florida

[Deguello]

I would imagine every city with a major coastal or inland airport like NYC or LA or Atlanta would prime choices for a Nintendo store.

Anyway, Ian, since it would be a Nintendo store owned by Nintendo and whatnot, they would not need to worry about contract gabbledegook with EB for demo units AND would not have to worry much about competitor vandalism, like what happened during the Xbox/GC launch.  Also, demos and stuff would get there sooner because it would come directly from the source.  Imagine being able to play the E3 demo of everything at anytime since Nintendo would just keep those discs from E3 and use them in the store.

[RABicle]

Theres one big drawback with a Nintendo store and it happend with Apple and their stores. Retailers will only hate Nintendo more. Because they now have to compete with Nintendo themselves at selling Nintendo games, they simply won't compete at all and will hardly stock Nintendo products at all.

[Ian Sane]

"Imagine being able to play the E3 demo of everything at anytime since Nintendo would just keep those discs from E3 and use them in the store."

Sounds great... except for the fact that I would likely have to take an hour trip to downtown Vancouver to play it.  Or possibly Seattle instead.  It's a cool idea but it can't outright replace the demo units at EB.  It's just too inconvienent for them to limit their demos to a specialty store.

[Tuxedo.Bond]

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Originally posted by: MysticGohan24
Bah, Forget Georgia. We get nothing in Florida

We get plenty of hurricanes, hah, um, take that New York!

And not competing because someone other store starts to sell the same products is ridiculous, if a store just wusses out every time some one competes, then they wouldn't be in business.

[thepoga]

they should open stores in every city and two per block. That's the best way to do it.

[Shift Key]

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Place bets that this won't hit Europe/Australia for a long time

Bwahahaha, I fell off my chair laughing at that. What are the odds on "Never" going for, because that seems to be the most likely bet!